English words for 'moonstone'
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- Moonshine. (illegal alcohol)
- (Canada, informal) Hockey.
- (US, anthropology) A hockey-like game played by American Indians.
- (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
- (Canada) Street hockey.
- a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck
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- (slang) A moonshiner.
- A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
- One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
- A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
- Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
- (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
- Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
- A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
- (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
- One who shines; a luminary.
- (colloquial) A black eye.
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
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- (astronomy) One of Pluto's moons.
- (astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a serpent. It lies just south of the zodiac and contains the star Alphard.
- One of the Saronic Islands in the Aegean Sea.
- (geography) A commune in Algiers Province, Algeria.
- (Greek mythology) A mythological serpent with many heads, slain by Hercules as one of his twelve labours.
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- any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
- A curved pastry.
- (historical) Any of three orders of knighthood conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
- A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
- The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
- (heraldry) The emblem of the waxing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
- A crescentspot butterfly.
- (Islam) A representation of a crescent, used as a symbol of Islam.
- (New Zealand) A crescent spanner.
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- Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
- (chiefly historical) (Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).
- Extremely high.
- (astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.
- (alchemy, chemistry, historical) Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
- of or relating to or associated with the moon
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- A moon of Saturn.
- (chemistry, attributively) Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine.
- (attributively) Used to indicate things with two faces (such as animals with diprosopus) or aspects; or made of two different materials; or having a two-way action.
- (Roman mythology) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.
- (figuratively) A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
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- (transitive) To adorn with moons or crescents.
- To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
- (cryptocurrencies, of a coin or token) To rise in price rapidly or suddenly. (from to the moon)
- (transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
- (transitive) To expose to the rays of the Moon.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake
- expose one's buttocks to
- be idle in a listless or dreamy way
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- (informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
- (card games) In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
- A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
- (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-second Lenormand card.
- A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
- The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- any object resembling a moon
- the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
- any natural satellite of a planet
adj
- of Saturn's moon Atlas
- Of or like the Greek titan Atlas, who carries the heavens on his shoulders, as in Atlantean strength
- (figuratively) flooded or submerged, especially in case of a natural disaster, reminiscent of the way Atlantis sank into the ocean
- (figuratively) Of the celestial spheres carried by Atlas
- Of the mythical island of Atlantis, its people, or its civilization.
- Of an architectural atlas or atlantid, or reminiscent of such: atlantean figures
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- Cucurbita pepo
- Cucurbita argyrosperma
- Cucurbita maxima
- Cucurbita moschata
- any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
- any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months
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- (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.
- (countable) A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
- (Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
- An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.
- (astronomy) Alternative form of ATLAS
- A township in Genesee County, Michigan.
- (astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.
- (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
- An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.
- Ellipsis of Atlas Mountains
- A subgroup of the Berber languages.
- (astronautics, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.
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- Moonshine. (illegal alcohol)
- (Canada, informal) Hockey.
- (US, anthropology) A hockey-like game played by American Indians.
- (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
- (Canada) Street hockey.
- a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck
verb
noun
- (slang) A moonshiner.
- A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
- One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
- A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
- Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
- (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
- Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
- A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
- (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
- One who shines; a luminary.
- (colloquial) A black eye.
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
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- Cucurbita pepo
- Cucurbita argyrosperma
- Cucurbita maxima
- Cucurbita moschata
- any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
- any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months
verb
- (transitive) To adorn with moons or crescents.
- To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
- (cryptocurrencies, of a coin or token) To rise in price rapidly or suddenly. (from to the moon)
- (transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
- (transitive) To expose to the rays of the Moon.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake
- expose one's buttocks to
- be idle in a listless or dreamy way
name
noun
- (informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
- (card games) In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
- A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
- (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-second Lenormand card.
- A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
- The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- any object resembling a moon
- the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
- any natural satellite of a planet
adj
noun
- any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
- A curved pastry.
- (historical) Any of three orders of knighthood conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
- A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
- The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
- (heraldry) The emblem of the waxing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
- A crescentspot butterfly.
- (Islam) A representation of a crescent, used as a symbol of Islam.
- (New Zealand) A crescent spanner.
verb
adj
- Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
- (chiefly historical) (Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).
- Extremely high.
- (astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.
- (alchemy, chemistry, historical) Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
- of or relating to or associated with the moon
noun
adj
- of Saturn's moon Atlas
- Of or like the Greek titan Atlas, who carries the heavens on his shoulders, as in Atlantean strength
- (figuratively) flooded or submerged, especially in case of a natural disaster, reminiscent of the way Atlantis sank into the ocean
- (figuratively) Of the celestial spheres carried by Atlas
- Of the mythical island of Atlantis, its people, or its civilization.
- Of an architectural atlas or atlantid, or reminiscent of such: atlantean figures